Chicago woman dies of swine flu just one day after giving birth
Pastor Dale Morgan
Chicago woman dies of swine flu just one day after giving birth*
June 4, 2009
FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
A 20-year-old Chicago woman has become the fourth person in Illinois to
die of the H1N1 swine flu virus, just one day after giving birth to a
baby via Cesarean section.
Caitlin Huber, of the 4400 block of South Wood Street, was pronounced
dead on May 30 at University of Illinois Medical Center at 12:03 p.m.,
according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The woman died of complications from the swine flu and pneumonia,
according to hospital spokeswoman Sherri McGinnis Gonzalez, who said she
was originally admitted on May 23 after suffering flu-like symptoms.
The baby was born at 27-weeks via Cesarean section on May 29, McGinnis
Gonzalez said. The baby remained in the hospital's neonatal intensive
care unit Wednesday night, she said.
The woman was the only patient diagnosed with H1N1 to die at the medical
center and the second person in Chicago to die of the H1N1 virus.
Statewide, there have been four total swine flu-related fatalities ---
two city residents and two suburbanites. The two city cases are a
previously reported 22-year-old man and a newly reported 20-year-old
woman, who had an underlying risk factor and who died on May 30 in a
hospital in the city, according to a release from the Health Department.
She had been admitted to the hospital on May 23 with flu-like symptoms.
A 42-year-old Kane County man — who had underlying medical conditions —
was the third Illinois death due to the swine flu. He died on May 28.